……is it a bad sign that I can recall Billie doing something useful for someone other than herself? I’m not trying to rag on Billie, I’m really not, but I can’t honestly recall any situation before this where I felt something for her other than pity or rage.

The conventional opinion is that if you’re drinking to get drunk, the higher level though processes are the last to go. This explains some absolutely smashed professional chessplayers making mincemeat out of the opposition in tournament and match play (looking at you, Alexander Alekhine). On the other hand, given that it’s Billie, it may be likely her mental “what to do in event of a party brawl” checklist is active only when she’s inebriated.

She possesses a superpower that most Irish and New Zealanders possess: the ability to become even more useful and effective at everything they try at a certain point of drunkness. This extends to Guitar Hero, Poker, any form of karaoke, Pool, darts and basically everything except for driving.

I’ve witnessed the super sober powers several times. Usually just after a person realizes they should feel guilty about something, but have no idea what that something is and must be sober to find out.

She’s still drunk. Plenty of hard-core drinkers can maintain semi-lucidity even with a shitload of alcohol in their systems. I knew a guy once who you couldn’t even tell he was drunk unless you paid close attention to how he walked when he’d been drinking.

He was definitely not safe to drive, but he could hold a conversation just fine.

One time I had a clandestine party at my parents house and someone threw up on the speakers and tv
I was so terrified of leaving party evidence I sobered up near instantly after having previously been laying on the floor yelling “BIRTHDAY SHOTS GUYS GUYS BIRTHDAY SHOTS”

I guess Willis does want her to be a positive figure sometimes. That’s nice!

Also, I’m actually (legitimately, no sarcasm) pretty thrilled that while tons of people were worried that Sarah was gonna kill Ryan, no one here gives a shit. Plus he’s probably okay, just a couple hits and a crotchstomp.

Of course! Sarah was originally a female decepticon turned autobot from cybertron, that ended up pulling off the greatest transformation ever: transforming to flesh and blood! having lived as a sophomore for an entire century, she moonlighted as ultracar and used her luxury car status to pay off her student loans, and gain millions off of those unlucky saps that would buy her (the government knows where she hides the bodies; don’t ask me where – THEY’RE WaTChInG mE!)

Witnessing the inequalities of the world, she became ultragirl, adding another persona to her already growing dementia, initially caused by lack of concentrated energon!

Billy possesses the ability to be at once totally drunk, and at the same time can be really lucid and can access her vast knowledge of stuff (roofies in this case) if she wants to. That is why Billy is great.

SO, anyway, the purpose of inviting these people (well, one of them) to the party was to prove how awesome a “free,” wild-party lifestyle is.

One fight broken up by Amazi-Girl, one drugging/attempted rape broken up by Sarah… sure, it doesn’t REALLY reflect on Roz, but man. It’s like how the one time you get your family to sit down and watch your favorite show, they play the ONE AND ONLY episode where everybody worships Satan and stabs jews.

As much as I agree that knowledge pertaining to terrible and horrific things is really the best kind of knowledge one can have, I’m pretty sure that Sarah did in fact intend it as a backhanded compliment. The implication seems to be that if someone was living a good life they would not know these things, much less have that as their only field in which they can be considered knowledgeable.

Actually Rohypnol is statistically rare as a date rape drug (less than 1% of cases), in part because it has a reaction in alcohol that makes it bitter. Other benzodiazepines and GHB (as well products like GBL that metabolize into GHB) are significantly more common, though GHB also has a subtle salty taste. GHB is doubly scary as it’s one of those that, if consumed with alcohol, can actually kill you because of the way the side effects of both interact.
Meanwhile the statistically most common date rape drug is alcohol, as it likely has been for most of human history. Though the concept of date rape is of very recent vintage, being at most 20 to 30 years old, the practice has likely been around since humanity first learned the effects of alcohol. Of course the word ‘rape’ itself only narrowed to the modern meaning within the past couple hundred years, and of old meant taking something by force in general and not sex specifically. ‘Ravish’ coming of similar etymological basis has a similar history becoming specifically of sexual note in the past couple centuries.
I’ll stop rambling now, but the tl;dr is scum like this has been part of humanity as long as we’ve existed and alcohol has been, and remains, the main tool for this job.

She’s been consuming alcohol so long that it now acts like the synthehol from Star Trek: The Next Generation, in that you can enjoy its effects, but when the drek hits the fan (I know, crossing sci-fi series for the metaphor) you sober up ASAP.

God damn it. All I can help but think is “Well the first time poor Joyce went to a college party she got roofied by an almost-rapist.” That’s an awful first weekend of college, & will likely be extremely traumatic. & I just feel terrible for her…

It’s not a general skill, but isn’t freakishly unusual in my experience. Of course my experience does include the time I had consumed QUITE a bit of vodka and then a friend of mine put his hand through a glass fronted bookcase, after which I not only bandaged the injury but asked if he was the one with a history of clotting issues (he wasn’t, that was his brother). I may not have been able to stand up without sloooowly tipping over, but by god I could check for glass shards and apply a pressure dressing.

In my case, my balance goes to hell and I lose the mental filter that keeps most of my stupid comments inside my head, but there has never been a situation where alcohol has impeded my ability to store and recall information. I always remember exactly what it was that everyone did last night, even if I spent half of it slumped in a corner mumbling incoherently. This has caused much embarrassment for people involved.

Plus, as mentioned above, certain situations (like holy shit someone’s just been drugged and has cut their hand open hitting a rapist with a glass) can sober you up incredibly fast.

“Not old enough to drink” is a terrible excuse (loljk but seriously there is no drinking age in college).

But now for my serious point:

Drinking doesn’t fundamentally change who you are, it just lowers your inhibitions. You’d be surprised how deliberate drunk dials are. With someone who is clearly a very experienced drinker like Billie, she probably knows this and went with it. It’s also highly likely that she’s been in a situation like this before, whether it was a friend or her personally.

People rarely completely forget facts they have taken to heart, they just don’t react as quickly when the situation calls for it.

Question: why hasn’t anyone hog-tied or otherwise restrained Ryan yet? Granted, he needs first aid, but surely he’s proven himself far too great a risk to pull a James Bond supervillain mistake, and simply let him have a chance to escape.

Billie, Sarah, you are awesome incarnate. PLEASE tell me that this means someone is going to call the cops or at least take Joyce to the hospital. If they can get a blood test done and prove there are drugs in her system, Ryan’s probably looking at jail time.

Dunno why people are so amazed at Billie’s ability to be coherent. I mean, sure she’s a one drink drunk, but people have pretty amazing tendancies to be apparently coherent. I’ve seen moments of clarity from several drunken people in my (admittedly limited) time. On another note, the actual glass thing isn’t that far fetched. Been to quite a few parties that we had only glasses for drinks.

… and now I’m seeing several people I know in relation to the DoA characters… Damn you, Willis, for having relatable characters!

I think this is the moment when we assumed we wouldn’t be seeing a whole lot of coherent thought from Billie for the rest of the night. Not really an issue of being a one drink drunk, unless we’re assuming both those kegs and that headmounted piece of drunken genius count as a singular drink.

She has been really, excessively drunk. In almost every shot of her everyone around her is hanging out, chilling, socializing as they sip their beverage while Billie flails around like a drunken jackass. Plus she was drinking before the party even started. Got “Pre-drunk” as she called it so that she could get superdrunk immediately upon entering the building. She’s likely more booze than person at this point.

Billie strikes me as the kind of girl who uses alcohol as an excuse. She enjoys acting like the full on retard you’re expected to be while drunk. So she drinks some, and goes to party and blends in, but can quickly and easily snap to reality if actually needed.

So like that guy who always comes online and keeps repeating to the guild how drunk he is as he spends the day conducting himself as a moronic asshole, but is somehow still able to pull himself together and tank with perfect clarity when the time comes to delve into some crunchy dungeons.

There’s a certain amount of showmanship to it. It’s more important to be seen as drunk so you can cut loose and let go of those inhibitions than it is to actually be intoxicated to the point of being incapable of making good decisions.

Considering what we know about her, that actually makes a shocking amount of sense. She’s got a lot of frustrations, and seems to have a really rough time keeping herself in line all day. The opportunity to just let loose and forget about consequences for an evening is probably worth far more to her than the booze itself. Also makes it a bit more clear why she’s been so desperate for a party when she seems to have no problem getting drunk independently.

I really like this angle. I hadn’t put any of that together before you pointed it out.

Joyce should still go to the hospital. My younger brother was once roofied and he felt like he was going to die, and he’s a muscular, 200 pound dude. You never know how much some creepo used and how your body will react.

I’ll second that. No matter the actual chemical mixed into that drink there’s a strong chance for an overdose there as scum like that don’t tend to stop at enough for their purposes and in fact will often go the “more is better” route, despite that being very potentially lethal. I unfortunately can’t find any specific LD info on any of the most common substances that potentially could have been in that glass, but found one for that class of drugs which taken with Joyce’s weight from Walkypedia suggests as little as 5-6 pills would be lethal to her, and 8-9 for your brother.

Roofies is just a new word for a practice old before pulp magazines started to mention mickies. “There’s nothing new under the sun,” as Voltaire wrote, and I’m pretty sure he stole that observation from an earlier writer.

I’m pretty sure about half the commentators here are in their thirties and forties. You might not be as far from the norm as you think.

Oh please…you’re all saying she drunk herself into sobriety. Surely it MUST be Billie’s little known second liver. Dr. Who has two hearts, Billie has two livers which would filter alcohol faster than most. The only comic person I know that CAN’T get drunk is Wolverine, he has confrimed that his healing factor filters out the alcohol too fast for him to GET drunk.

This is going to be a very big generalization, but it seems like the people who find Billie’s sudden sobriety believable actually have had experience with drinking/being drunk in emergency situations, vs people who have had little experience drinking.

I’ll admit to a lack of experience with drinking in either context. Most people don’t do well in emergencies when they’re sober though, and I can’t imagine being intoxicated aids this. Honestly I would not have guessed that Billie would be capable of this, sober or otherwise.

Ultimately the question seems to be, is it more impressive that she played Sir Savien perfectly, or that she did so with a broken string? Personally I wouldn’t know. I just know it’s damned impressive what she did today.

“Sarah, what are you doing here?”
“Hoping you wouldn’t see me.”
“Um, okay…and why did you bring a baseball bat with you?”
“Err, there were some mailboxes on the way here that I thought were ugly, so I thought I’d…well anyway, I really need to get back to studying, so you guys take it from here, okay?”
“Wait, where are you?”

With that, Sarah grabbed her bat and slipped hastily into the crowd, and out the back door. Taking refuge behind some bushes, she set the bad down -and it suddenly began to change, bending and folding back upon itself. As it did so, Sarah reached up behind her head, and pulled-

With the removal of her Sarah mask, the young woman’s true form was revealed: Amazi-Girl! Inexplicably her clothes had changed to her iconic superhero outfit (the version without the chest window), showing her in her true glory – though the only one who could see her was the thing that was formerly her bat.

“Amazi-Stool? Take this, and go back to the AmaziCave. I need to get back in there before I’m missed.”

The stool flexed its front legs in a nod, and Amazi-Girl placed the Sarah mask on its flat top. Then, as it began to hop away, she reached into a hidden pocket in the back of her cape, and extracted a pair of glasses – as she slipped them on her face, over her mask, her disguise become complete.

Now dressed in her civilian clothes again, Roz left the bushes and returned to the party.

—-

Until I get a better explanation, this will be my reasoning behind the bat Sarah has with her. And by “better”, I mean “more awesome”.

Joe didn’t press charges. Just because they got away with it doesn’t make it legal.

Though I do agree that Sarah’ll be fine, most likely for that very same reason. Ryan’s probably not looking to turn this into a “He said she said”. For all that he might win the case, afterward he’d have to deal with excessively well publicized and recorded accusations of rapist tendencies on his part. One thing to have a few rumors going here and there, but good luck getting anyone to let you near their drinks after that trial.

Plus you just know that once it reached that point all his previous victims would come out of the woodwork to tell their stories to anyone willing to listen, be they law enforcers, courtroom workers, reporters, or just the student body. Really in his best interest to keep this on the down low.

The self-defense law in the US does extend to protecting others, yes. Although, if you keep attacking the person after they’re incapacitated and can’t do any further harm to you or the person you’re protecting, then you might still end up getting arrested. I’m slightly worried that Sarah might have strayed into that territory after delivering the second blow with the bad (“Stay down, and I won’t hit you again. *thwack* Whoops, I lied”)

I also slightly worry that she might have accidentally killed him, what with delivering two blows to the head and curb-stomping him. That might also get her in legal trouble if that happens.

It was several pitchers of beer shared, and enough beer to overcome her natural heightened healing & stamina. That’s quite a bit different than one beer.

Also, the point was less that underage drinking is bad, and more that drinking to that extent lowers your self-control to potentially dangerous levels, especially when you’re the Slayer so already capable of significantly hurting someone.

Hell, it’s not even the only time they show Buffy drinking, partying, or drinking underage. The cast is shown drinking before most of them are 21 several more times throughout the series.

I’m actually worried about Joyce…A. whatever slimebag slipped into her drink; it reacted rather quickly with her…B. Is that blood on her hand it’s(I refuse to call it by a gender because what it did caused it to loose all rights as a living being) blood, her blood or a mix of the two…If that’s the case who knows what BBPs she may have picked up…Sorry it’s the former EMT in me screaming…

What…the…Hell? This is the same woman that was running around with a keg on her head not twenty minutes ago in story. How in the world did she suddenly transition from drunk as a skunk to resident EMT?!!

I’m really impressed how put together Billie is, considering she was shit-faced drunk of her ass a second ago. I guess the adrenaline of finding your friend drugged and your… person you share a bathroom with beating the shit of out someone, is a sobering thing.